Discouragement Quotes

Discouragement Quote of the day

Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

When discouragement comes, don't stop. Dig deep and fight it through!

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Discouragement is not from God.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

I'm an encourager at heart. I love to give words of encouragement and I love to receive words of encouragement. That's probably why words of discouragement affect me so deeply.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

There is no greater illness than discouragement!

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.